Re: Giving latex attributes to sections in export

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Giving latex attributes to sections in export
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:13:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0960A5A4-281A-4472-B621-F817D3BBC090@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilInob6xp0SMnX8f3ymYs8S29VhXnhrJTtWdZAU@mail.gmail.com>

Hi John,

please check out this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/12977/focus=13057

and then use org-special-blocks.el

HTH

- Carsten

On May 22, 2010, at 11:50 PM, John Hendy wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I just emailed a similar question about tables... but how can one  
> pass latex options inside of sections/subsections? I'd like  
> something like this in my report:
>
> * History of experiments
> introduction text goes here... blah blah blah. A history of  
> experiments and corresponding data tables will follow.
>
> \begin{landscape}
>
> ** Date of experiment 1
> *** Conditions
> *** Data
> |table|of|data
>
> ** Date of experiment 1
> *** Conditions
> *** Data
> |table|of|data
>
> \end{landscape}
>
> * Conclusion
>
> So... I'd like the report in portrait mode, but my tables are long  
> enough that it makes sense to switch entirely to landscape for that  
> portion of the report and then switch back for portrait for  
> discussion. At present if I do either:
>
> \begin{landscape}
>
> #+BEGIN_LaTeX
> \begin{landscape}
> #+END_LaTeX
>
> then org-mode ignores the following section. It DOES actually rotate  
> the orientation, but the tables are all in ASCII format and in the  
> matching .tex file, instead of \subsection{name}, I just get a  
> literal export of the subsection asterisks ("*** subsection name')  
> exactly how it looks in org-mode. Something triggers org-mode to  
> stop translating from org-mode structure into LaTeX. I've checked  
> possible uses for property drawers and #+ATTR_LATEX seems only to  
> apply to images... just not sure how to slip in various latex  
> commands as they are needed.
>
>
> Best regards,
> John
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- Carsten